TerraTec CAMEO DV800, Manual

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Page 2: ...ent The manufacturer reserves the right to change the contents of this document and or the associated products at any time without the provision of prior notice to specific persons or organizations The manufacturer shall not be held liable for damages of any kind arising from the use or the inability to use this product or its documentation even if the possibility of such damage is known The infor...

Page 3: ...e of delivery 4 Installation 5 Card Diagram 5 Installing the Cameo DV 800 PCI card 6 Connecting a DV camcorder 7 Connecting other FireWire devices 7 You re not alone 8 Service at TerraTec 10 Cameo DV 800 English 3 Glossary 13 ...

Page 4: ...of fun for you for a long time to come Scope of delivery The scope of delivery includes at least the following 1 Grabster DV PCI IEEE 1394 Controller 1 Software CD 1 IEEE 1394 connecting cable 6 pin to 4 pin for connecting your camcorder 1 Registration card with the serial number Hardware and software manual Please fill out and return the registration card to us at your earliest convenience or reg...

Page 5: ...Installation Card Diagram These ports let you connect the Cameo DV 800 PCI card to the outside world to your camcorder for example Cameo DV 800 English 5 ...

Page 6: ...rd if possible Carefully remove the Cameo DV 800 PCI card from its packaging and pick it up by the edges with one hand while your other hand is resting on the metal of the PC case This will ensure that your body is completely discharged via your computer without affecting the card Do not touch the components of the card under any circumstances Align the holder at the rear of the Cameo DV 800 PCI c...

Page 7: ...0 PCI card Connecting other FireWire devices In addition to DV camcorders a whole range of FireWire devices can be used with the Cameo DV 800 PCI card These include FireWire hard drives CD ROM and DVD drives printers and the like Up to 63 devices can be connected and used at the same time Please refer to the documentation of the device when connecting FireWire devices other than camcorders Cameo D...

Page 8: ... es Netherlands http www canon nl JVC http www jvc europe com JvcCons Panasonic Germany http www panasonic de UK http www panasonic co uk France http www panasonic fr Italy http www panasonic it Spain http www panasonic es Netherlands http www panasonic nl SONY Germany http www sony de UK http www sony co uk France http www sony fr Italy http www sony it Spain http www sony es 8 Cameo DV 800 Engli...

Page 9: ... of DV camcorders http www como com Germany http www dv in de http www dvcut de http www hifivideofachversand de http www stonehead de The Netherlands http www twintek nl dvwidget html http enable dvin org UK http enable dvin org Cameo DV 800 English 9 ...

Page 10: ...ontact us online at http supporten terratec net In either case please have the following information handy your registration number this documentation the manual of your motherboard and a screen shot of your BIOS configuration if possible In addition it would be helpful to our technicians if you are at your computer during the phone call so that you can carry out our tips and tricks directly Pleas...

Page 11: ...he problem cannot be processed and will be re turned to you at your expense Be sure to include a copy of your purchase receipt not the original with the package If we do not receive a copy of a receipt we will assume that the warranty for the product has expired and will bill you for the repair Please use a sufficiently strong and padded mailing package We recommend using the original package Reme...

Page 12: ...g for return shipment Any warranty claim will be jeopardized by improper packaging The warranty will not apply to damage caused by improper packaging 6 Foreign manufactured products Devices that are not manufactured or distributed by TerraTec Electronic GmbH will be returned and a processing fee will be charged 7 Repairs liable to your expense Repairs out of the warranty period are liable to your ...

Page 13: ... short piece of video material Composite video Composite video is a transmission method common in the consumer sector that is generally realized using cinch connectors and which is frequently used for example on TVs In this process all signals chrominance and luminance share a single cable The quality of composite video is lower than that of S video in which chrominance and luminance are transferr...

Page 14: ... of up to one hour The DV format used in the professional sector supports playing times of up to three hours DV In Usually the DV jack of a camcorder can transport video data in both directions to and from the camcorder Many camcorders in Europe do not feature DV In however Also see Enabling Enabling Due to European import duties imported digital video recorders are more expen sive than imported d...

Page 15: ...in the same sequence as the edited video clips A simple form of linear video editing would be to copy material from an analog video camera to a VCR and discard a number of clips in the process However if you would like to insert a new clip in the middle it would be necessary to copy all of the following clips again Luma keying Unlike chroma keying the transparency of the video is determined on the...

Page 16: ...d G reen and B lue To achieve the natural display of colors on a computer each of these components must have at least 256 values This corresponds to exactly one byte for each color component A single complete video image would thus require 768 pixels x 576 pixels x 3 bytes 1 327 104 bytes This corresponds to around 1 2 MB per frame One second of video in the RGB color space would therefore require...

Page 17: ...ta VCDs can be viewed in virtually any DVD player Video filter Video filters let you influence your video material in a wide range of ways For example you can manipulate the colors of your video film or use complex filters to degrade your new top quality film to look like an old silent movie Video for Windows This is an old but still commonly used video concept for Windows YIQ YIQ is a color space...

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